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It's been tagged the 'kitchen table conversation' approach. And if a recent trial is anything to go by it works. "Participants ... cut power use by 37 per cent and their carbon footprint by 27 per cent," says Paul Graham, one of the

"Approximately 28,000 supermarkets worth of food goes to landfill every year in Victoria," suggests FareShare CEO Marcus Godinho. FareShare is a food rescue service in Melbourne, Australia, who were a joint winners of the 2010

Australia has a feral camel problem. The Australian Feral Camel Management Project estimates that 1 million of rogue dromedaries roam outback Australia, annually causing over $14 million AUD worth of damage to infrastructure and

Australian architect Toby Horrocks designed freefold furniture for his empty apartment two years ago. It was clever stuff, letting you build up a bookcase out of the cardboard boxes you move things in. Now he has designed a

There are so much to love about Andrew Maynard Architects. As I wrote when we gave him our Best Young Architect Award in the Best of Green 2010, "as his body of built work grows, it shows every sign of the humour, talent and environmental concern of

From building a DIY compost tumbler through composting human waste to planting a permaculture allotment, we've featured some great how-to videos for the crunchier, dirtier end of green living. But this next one should

From locavore versus lifecycle, to arguments about plastic bags being a distraction, or the real impact of carnivorous versus vegan diets, it is easy to get confused about what our priorities should be in lightening our

Yesterday, between 40-50 climate activists shut down the world's largest coal port in Newcastle, Australia by strapping themselves to industrial loaders. The action was strikingly symbolic, as the protesters from

Geoff Lawton's work greening the deserts of Jordan has already won accolades around the world (see also Warren's original post on the Greening the Desert mini-movie). Geoff has also created great materials on some

Unless you're a climate policy wonk or a close follower of all things global warming, here's what you probably remember about Copenhagen: It sucked. It was a failure. Crash and Burn. In reality, it wasn't the absolute loss that many perceive and still

While we've received a healthy influx of signs that the world's heavyweights aren't planning on diversifying their energy portfolios to any radical degree in the near future -- China building a submersible to dive

To shed light on the plight of our plastic-laden oceans, David de Rothschild built a sailboat from 12,000 soda bottles and took it clear across the Pacific. With TreeHugger-founder Graham Hill as a crew member, the Plastiki charted a death-defying

A shockingly high percentage of female sea snails off the coast of Perth, Australia, have been found with a troubling new feature - penises growing from their heads! Researchers say that at one point, 100 percent of the snail

Designed with economy of materials, transportation and assemblage in mind, we're big fans of flat-pack furniture that's done well, especially when it's got a bit of pizzazz to it. The Zaishu Stool by Australian design duo